I really don’t think you can say that was anywhere near one of UFC’s “good” efforts. At best it was a to mediocre-to-satisfactory card.

Maynard-Clementi was a total l’n'p snoozer. The Brazilian grudge match was a dance contest.

Really, what was so spectacular about Sherk-Griffin anyways? Two dudes who are known for wrestling, using a secondary skill – which albeit looked technically sound – but again for each guy, showed a complete lack of ability to finish the fight. It was a “boxing” match for the most part, between two guys who are not boxers. Now we know they can’t finish the fight on the mat or on the feet.

At least in Alves/Kos you saw the devastating power of Alves and his vastly improving game to avoid the takedowns of one of the UFC’s best takedown artists. And we say someone almost finish someone – however, you also saw a guy who had his opponent hurt and on the ropes but was unwilling to take a risk to finish because he didn’t want to risk losing a title shot opportunity. While in some ways it shows patience and maturity, it also shows lack of killer instinct or in the least tentativeness to seize opportunity.

On top of that you have a massively disappointing main event.

I’m sorry but the card just wasn’t that good in it’s set-up or its execution.

Right, I mean, Cote took some good shots from Silva, and Silva knows that Cote can strike, so he was waiting for Cote to leave openings, and when Cote did leave openings, he took full advantage of them. I’m sure he could have rushed in, clinched and tried to finish the fight early, but he would have put himself in danger as well.

Anyone hear anything about Reljic’s back?

During RJJ’s prime, he was beating up fighters so easily that all of a sudden there were no legit challengers for him (just like Silva). And then he got very boring very quickly because he didn’t feel threatened during the fight (like Silva showed yesterday).

I am willing to chalk it up to just one bad performance, but if this continues for Anderson Silva, I will not be impressed.

After watching the fights, I think Thiago Alves has a real good chance of beating GSP. He’s arguably the best striker in MMA at the 170 lb division, and he successfully stuffed all of Kos’ takedowns. Granted, GSP has superior wrestling than Kos, but it still says a lot about Alves TD defense. It’s a very intriguing fight, I’m more interested in it than I am in Penn vs GSP II.

“Dana and Larry have an ice-cream stand. They sold 11 ice cream cones for $254 each, and gave away 4 ice cream cones. Dana and Larry paid $1,000 for ice cream, cones, and to rent their ice cream stand.

What was Dana and Larry’s gross profit?”

“Dana and Larry also sold the rights to broadcast a three hour television special to a cable company in return for half the money. The cable company sold the special for $45, and sold 350 copies. How much revenue did Dana and Larry earn by making the TV special?”

“Dana and Larry retained the right to sell an expanded version of the TV special on DVD and Blu-ray disc, as well as to sell video of each fight online and on Xbox 360, and to sell the whole three hour event online through Yahoo and their own website. How much more money would Dana and Larry have to earn to be filthy rich?”

The card was decent except for Maynard, who single handedly killed the momentum and I am actually one of his biggest fans. The term “lay and pray” is overused by people who don’t understand MMA, but that was lay and pray.

Anderson was just trying to keep himself and the fans interested. If a fighter looks totally unbeatable, then fans lose interest. I think he was trying to make Cote look good by letting it go to the 3rd. He probably respected Cote’s for his show of confidence and spirit before the fight and figured he was worthy of three rounds.